He was on his way to the second day of a new job at Coventry University’s London Campus as a teaching fellow in tourism and hospitality when he was attacked.

The police were called at 8.07am and he was pronounced dead at the scene.

A post-mortem examination has confirmed the cause of death to be a stab wound.

At 7.25am that morning a 23-year-old-man was stabbed in the buttocks on Lewis Road, about a mile from where Mr Young was found.

He suffered non-life threatening injuries but remains in hospital.

Mr Young’s brother paid tribute to his sibling – whose LinkedIn page said he had worked his way up through the hospitality industry before completing a masters degree in international hospitality management – in the days after his death.

He wrote on Facebook: ‘Just so proud of everything you achieved in your life, places you travelled, friends you made. You are inspirational big bro.’